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 Julian Scott - Johnson Posted by:  Vermontish
N 44° 38.183 W 072° 41.212
18T E 683460 N 4945161
Noted Civil War artist, awarded the Medal of Honor
Waymark Code: WM6XZ5
Location: Vermont, United States
Date Posted: 08/03/2009
Views: 15
1846-1901
Julian Scott, Vermont’s most renowned Civil War artist, was born in this Johnson house in 1846. At the start of the Civil War, when only 15, he enlisted as a fifer in the Third Vermont Regiment. Scott was awarded a Medal of Honor for rescuing wounded under enemy fire at the Battle of Lee’s Mills, Virginia. He later studied art under Emanuel Leutze at the National Academy of Design in New York and in1870 was elected an associate member of the Academy. The Battle of Cedar Creek, his monumental 1874 painting, was commissioned as a Civil War memorial for the Vermont State House. Scott’s Civil War and Native American paintings are acclaimed for their authenticity, detail, and democratic viewpoint. He died in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1901.
The Battle of Cedar Creek
hangs in the Cedar Creek Room
in the Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier
Marker Name: Julian Scott
Location: Johnson
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